Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on Debian 11

In this video I will show you how to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions on a Debian 11 virtual machine. The Virtual Box Guest Additions makes features such as copying and pasting between the host OS and virtual machine as well as running the virtual machine in full screen. I used the article below the description as the base of installing it and making the video how to. Thanks Karim Buzdar! 1. Open your terminal in Debian 11 2. Update the OS: sudo apt update or from root apt update 3. if there are updates then upgrade: sudo apt upgrade or from root apt upgrade 4. Install the needed dependencies: sudo apt install dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential 5. Insert the Guest Additions CD: From the top bar of your virtual machine click on devices then Insert Guest Additions CD Image 6. Open files and click on the CD, you should be able to view the CD Image contents 7. Mount the CDROM from the terminal: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt 8. Check CDROM listing: ls /mnt  this will also show you the CD contents 10. After installation, reboot your virtual machine: sudo reboot now You should now be able to set the cop/paste, shared folders, fulle screen and other options from the virtual machine&menu Find below links to the article used for this video as well as links that are relevant: